RAPHA CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

RAPHA CHURCH
(General towards changing the community through care, respect and love, need for making the orphaned child come out of hopelessness by creating a conducive environment towards meaningful and meaningful life.)

PROJECT PROPOSAL
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SUBMITTED BY: RAPHA CHURCH
P.O BOX 2710  30200
KITALE - KENYA
Tel:+254(0) 721 222 515
Email:angelmelweny@mail.com

INTRODUCTION
Rapha Church located in Kitale Kenya demonstrates in a personal and honest way faith, trust and compassion. We are obligated to value and participation of each community member through care, respect and changing the community
We are therefore extending this mission towards the orphans in the community around us and especially those orphaned as a result of HIV and AIDS in the slums and semi-slums areas of estate in Kitale town. We also intend to serve and minister other areas outside Trans Nzoia County.
The number of orphans is increasing everyday due to ignorance and poverty in the county. This has especially affected the above mentioned areas within our community. The childrens home will be located in the suburbs of Kitale town. It will be on a thirty-acre piece of land, and will host the orphans who are currently housed in a rented premise.

CONTEXT/JUSTIFICATION.
Rapha church was formed ten years ago. From two congregations it has grown to big congregations it seeks to demonstrate faith, trust and compassion so that the community may experience transformation spiritually, mentally and physically. It is in this concept that the church has seen the suffering of children whose parents have died due to HIV & AIDs and other diseases.
Some parents are members of the church and the community. We are obligated to the value and participation of each member through care, respect and changing the community and therefore have the confidence to put p a childrens home that will cater for these children. Equally, we have started mobilizing our church members and community by creating awareness of this need so that members may support the childrens home through donations and sponsorship. This will enhance the childrens home. In its long endeavor the church envisages running a nursery school, primary school, health centre. We intend to harmonize these facilitates to assist the childrens home in future once the home is set up.
We have been involved in insisting other homes and also in educating orphans who have relatives or guardians living with them. We feel setting up a childrens home in an extension of the already existing ministry. This will create an opportunity to serve the home better and the church will now be directly accountable, and serve more than it is the case currently.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The HIV & IADs is the threat to people of Kenya. The people of Kenya are either affected or infected. The number of children infected by HIV & AIDS in Kenya by year 2007 was 150,000. Adults infected were 1.4Millions (KAIS 2007). Considering this figure, there is therefore a great need to have children cared in a home where we can give hope when their parents die. We are also creating for orphans who are HIV/AIDS positive offering them shelter, medical care and education.
A school run by the church will be established to give help to these children. Education in Kenya has been affected by poverty where many children do not attend school. Now the government has offered free primary education to all. One problem that has emerged is the quality of education being poor due to many children who joined schools. Facilities are inadequate and would take some reasonable time to address the situation. The project undertakes to construct a high school for the children as well.
It is after considering how much this problem has affected the community that the church has come out with the proposal. Putting up a childrens home will help in giving care to these disadvantaged children and give them an opportunity to go to school and learn skills which will help them sustain themselves.

       OBJECTIVES

    1.  SHORT TERM
-To set up a childrens home for orphaned children.
-To create a home environment for orphaned children.
-To train a child for responsible living.
-To offer education and skills to orphaned children
-Create employment for the community.

We shall start with a manageable number of 14 orphans on a rented house. On this home, we shall have workers who will serve as mothers and therefore make these children feel loved.
We shall train the children through counseling, preaching and taking them to school. All the children will go to school; they will range between pre-school and class 3. We will come up with a school that will cater for the childrens education from Preschool to high school.

    2.LONG TERM
-Obtain land for expansion of the children home.
-Develop the childrens home and ensure its sustainability.
-Put up facilities that go along in serving the children such as a home, clinic, a school, a sewer system and a borehole. -Transport, chapel, farming and conference centre.
-To further involve the community towards project participation. The project needs a land where such facilities would be put up. These facilities would serve the childrens home as well as the community.

These facilities will go along in assisting the expansion of the home to progressively facilitate admission of up to 400 orphans. The school will serve the orphans and is expected that it will serve other children from Kitale and other areas as well. A fee for the non-orphans will be charged which will assist in supporting the school and the home for self sustenance. A clininc will be put up to help towards giving medical services to the children and the community , this also will contribute towards sustaining the home and the clinic itself. It is also expected that the clinic will develop to a hospital where we can be able to serve the people of Kenya and specialize in cancer related illness for women.
Other facilities will include a conference centre. Kitale being a district and provincial headquarters attracts many conferences for the church and other organizations. A centre of this Nature would be helpful earning the money that would contribute towards sustenance of the home.
The project will also run some farming in the following areas.
-Farm produce.
-Cattle rearing (zero grazing)
-Poultry keeping.

This will help towards food production meant for the home and it is intended that these products will also be sold to earn the project some money. To be able to do all that, we need 30 acres of land but may need a bigger land as we see the project growing to serve other areas of disadvantaged people and even to a college.
Anticipated results (output)/Assumptions/Risks
It is expected that on creating awareness of this phenomena, need for support of these project will be received by the community so that together we can be able to achieve our objectives. We intent to have sponsors who will support the home to provide for basic needs of the children with the patronage of the church.
Once these children are brought up and cared for they will eventually, through their education and the skills gained become responsible people of the Nation. We will also through the project initiate programs that will educate the community on HIV/AIDS. We will especially embark on creating of awareness.

IMPLEMENTATIONS/WORK SCOPE
The running of the home will be sole responsibility of the Rapha Church. The local church committee (LCC) will take the lead through a committee formed with a cross section of professional in various fields.
In its initial stage, we will need social workers, children development workers, cooks who will work in the home on full time basis. The number of personnel will be determined by the growth of the home. In each area. We will need workers to start with.
        ACTION PLAN
1.SHORT TERM
The committee will establish suitable house that accommodate 14 children.
-Creating awareness to the church by passing information though relevant church group to ensure ownership of the project.
-Establishment and inform partners locally and abroad of the intensions of the home for support on both short and long term basis together with progress.
-Provide funds to cater for the home upkeep and for the personnel.
-Recruitment of staff
-Get the children thought advertisement and interviews.
-Launching the project-invite church and community leaders.
-Opening that news site home.
LONG TERM
Since the home is to be started on a rented premise we plan in future to move to a 30-acre land purchase that will accommodate the facilities.
It is of great importance to have a home that is self sustaining and with facilities that contributed to the growth of the child. In this respect, the project will undertake to ensure that the land is fully utilized to achieve the above mentioned by initializing relevant activities. Among this is mixed farming that will provide food to the conference center. These measures will be done on both short terms.

WORK SCOPE
The project will start in June 2020 with 5 orphans as per now the orphans who will are supporting three but three stay with relatives.
The project will be implemented in three phases with the assumption that the funds will continue to be available both locally and from the donors. The project completion period is projected to be five years. These phases will be as followers.

FIRST PHASE (2 YEARS)
1. Purchase of land.
2. Construction of Home
3. Drilling of borehole.
4. Construction of sewage.
5. Construction of primary school.
6. Kitchen and Dinning
7. Clinic.
8. Chapel.
9. Transport.

SECOND PHASE (2 YEARS)
Secondary school construction.
Staff housing.
Administration Block.
School.
Boarding facilities.